"Sound is the rubbing of notes between two drops of water,  the breath between the note and the silence, the sound of thought – To write is to note down the music of the world" – Helen Cixous This quote was just emailed to me by a dear friend and storyteller Kaja – telling me [...]

"Who Am I Alreay Now That I Can Be?" – question thanks to Diederick Janse, at The Hub Amsterdam ‘s Collaboration Day – thanks for a great conversation all!) Can Image: Campbell’s Soup 1968 (c) Andy Warhol I am SO mindful that such questions as this one bring us back to what actions we CAN [...]

The Point of Life is Life – Goethe “Don’t search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live [...]

  Maxim of the ever-wonderful Danish mathematician and poet, the late Piet Hein – author of some of my favourite poems, Grooks. (Gruks). See below for my two favourites – The Road to Wisdom and T.T.T. – though there are many more I enjoy! Read some more here. And here. And a bit more about [...]

This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may [...]

‘If I would be like him, Who would be like me?’   – An old quote thanks to the brilliance of Barry, a brother of a beautiful friend of mine, Annie, and my friend too… 

"A world without story is like a dynamite blowing the whole world. No writing, no story. There is nothing in this world without story" by MeiKei, grade 3, excerpted from "I Am a Pencil" by Sam Swope (p94)   Thanks to Shula for the book as a gift – and Sam, I look forward to [...]

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive" – Howard Thurman*   *A little note: apparently this quote is often attributed to the fictitious, well according to wikipedia, Harold Thurman Whitman. Whoever wrote [...]

"Keep your thoughts positive,because your thoughts become your words.Keep your words positive,because your words become your behaviour.Keep your behavior positive,because your behaviors become your habits.Keep your habits positive,because your habits become your values.Keep your values positive,because your values become your destiny." – Gandhi"As you imagine, so you become"thanks Andrea!

I think this is the most perfect ending I’ve ever read for a sad story. It’s by yiddish author, Sholom Aleichem, from the story ‘The Haunted Tailor’. "…don’t force it, kids! the ending is not a good one. It started very happily, and turned out, like most happy stories, very sadly. And since you know [...]